Fire Particles

[Vinz]

Which textures create good fires when used as particles?

Aside from Flame4.

 

[Infrisios]

Flame4 is rather bad actually, since it is a single texture. The best way is to use SubUVs.

Textures\Clouds8x8Fire.blp or Textures\Clouds8x8ModFire.blp are way better (set a modulate flag for the last one).

Edit, short explanation: SubUV basically means that you use multiple textures in one texture file. That's also where the name comes from, texture coordinates are commonly referred to as U and V and the main texture splits up in multiple rows and columns. The particle appears, its texture starts with the first column/row and then iterates through the columns and rows of the provided texture to show the specific subtextures.
For use of SubUVs, you might wish to take a closer look at building fires, for example:
Environment\LargeBuildingFire\LargeBuildingFire0.mdx

 

[Vinz]

Oh, thank you, I was also wondering about those textures with said rows and columns that I can't seem to use.

 

[Fingolfin]

I have a custom texture which looks super cool for fire, and it's only 19kb. Attaching it below, together with a sample file where you can check out roughly what values look good for it.

 

[Vinz]

Thank you, I'll check it out.